Instapundit points us to two distinct views of Thanksgiving. One, thankful and appreciative from John Tammes, one clearly not (Get the link from Instapundit, I refuse to put a link to that asshat Jensen on my blog). Reading them reminds me of a co-worker that had wanted to be a teacher until she had worked with K-12 schools as a sales rep. She said that teachers were the most miserable people she had ever met; that no idea was ever good enough, that they just loved to bitch endlessly. This was my experience selling to schools as well.
Liberals, and teachers are overwhelmingly liberal, cannot allow themselves to enjoy the present nor the progress we have experienced. In the Jensen piece, he cannot celebrate Thanksgiving because of the wrongs done in the past. And in his worldview unless we cannot dive in and bathe in the misery of Thanksgiving past and white guilt, we are the problem. He cannot celebrate or give thanks for what he and we have, nor the progress we have made in our treatment of minorities as we have not reached an ideal state. As I used to say about my K-12 customers, they would not accept a good or great solution to a problem because they preferred to wait on the perfect solution, which was never forthcoming, and bitch the whole time. As was mentioned on another blog, that unfortunately I cannot recall, the left is filled with miserable people. Certainly this has been a common thread for many of the hard lefties I have met as well, especially academics. Perhaps it is being on a campus filled with adolescents and never having to grow past the "it's not fair" way of thinking. Who knows for sure?
Giving thanks for what one has and we have is a good thing, It does not mean the world or our lives are perfect. Nor does it mean that our history is pristine. Rather, it is about appreciating what we do have. John Tammes, having seen life in a third world country and endured hardships as a soldier abroad understands this while Jensen, safely ensconced in Austin, does not.
Nor do some of his commenters it would seem as this comment shows us:
Genocide and slavery are the economic “ Plymouth Rock” of the U.S economy. Throw in the indentured servitude of some Europeans and you have the essence of what the U.S. is all about. This crap about great white men who did great white deeds to build a great white world sickens and enrages me. I had to unlearn all this stuff to come to some understanding of why it seemed that such a small number of untalented parasites had so much and the rest of us had squat. I blamed myself and my family. False history does great, emotional, economic and spiritual damage to us all. The U.S is the greatest terrorist nation on the planet. It’s the most racist country in the world and with the possible exception of the years when the Nazis controlled Germany, it is probably the most racist nation or empire in recorded history. The genocide of Native peoples on this continent was a dispicable act done by despicable people. The enslavement of Africans fascism, most foul.
If you really believe all that tripe, you must be a miserable person.
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